Word Finder - consonant

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A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.

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A letter representing the sound of a consonant.

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The 19 unquestionable consonants in the English alphabet are B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X, Z.

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Characterized by harmony or agreement.

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Having the same sound.

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Harmonizing together; accordant.

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consonant tones; consonant chords

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Of or relating to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.

That they were employed in divination is consonant with the facts already noted.

K is still in use as an ordinary consonant, and not limited to a symbol for abbreviations as in the classical period.

It will be seen that they contain three vowel and six consonant elements, and these formed the foundation for her first real lesson in speaking.

A10 Question 10 asked which words from the wordbank contained a consonant digraph.

Truth to tell, it is hard to imagine an idea more consonant with authentic Thomism.

The poem is all about being able to say the r consonant in Welsh, which is a very emphatic sound in Welsh.

Through the influence of Samuel Wilberforce, he was offered the post of sub-almoner to Queen Victoria, always recognized as a stepping-stone to the episcopal bench, and his refusal of it was honourably consonant with all else in his career as an Anglican dignitary, in which he united pastoral diligence with an asceticism that was then quite exceptional.

But how do you know when to double the consonant and when not to?

The nasal percept does not depend on continuity between the formants of the vowel and nasal consonant.

Actually, " w " can represent either a vowel or a consonant in Welsh spelling.

All of this will be useful in future classes if problem arise in the discrimination or production of voiced / unvoiced consonant pairs.

Again b'c" and CG have each 33 beats per second, yet the latter interval is practically smooth and consonant.

Simple vowels in unstressed syllables are short, whatever the following consonant.

If the pitch is raised still further the dissonance lessens, and when there are about 130 beats per second the interval is consonant.

At intake testing, they often segmented consonant blends as " one sound.

In the case of voiceless and voiced pairs, the voiceless consonant appears on the left hand side.

Instead, Glaswegians are just giving in to the natural tendency in language not to pronounce the final consonant.

In addition, the Bayesian model reliably predicts consonant duration in cases of missing or hidden linguistic factors.

According to Florio (i 6 i 1) V is "sometimes a vowel, and sometimes a consonant."

Originally Siamese was purely monosyllabic, that is, each true word consisted of a single vowel sound preceded by, or followed by, a consonant.

Though short o changed in the Latin of the last age of the Roman republic to u in unaccented syllables always (except after u whether vowel or consonant), and sometimes also in accented syllables, this was not equally true of vulgar Latin, as is shown by the Romance languages.

This last problem was consonant with Marx's own appeal to workers to overcome the alienation of capitalism.

It also helps learners to become conscious of the muscle movements involved in voicing a consonant.

In addition, an early stage of the language is thought to have had a further consonant whose identity remains uncertain.

When a case of prerogative was referred to the chancellor in the reign of Edward III., he was required to grant such remedy as should be consonant to honesty (honestas).

In Hebrew, a vowel always follows a consonant, unlike English where you can have double consonants or double vowels together in a word.

A lisp is a functional speech disorder that involves the inability to correctly pronounce one or more sibilant consonant sounds, usually s or z.

Consisting of 1000 words, the language was based off of Amharc and features many unique linguistic phonemes, including consonant usage.

As mentioned above, vowels appear over the preceding consonant (or the following consonant in Sindarin mode).

It may seem at first that so many as 44 consonants can scarcely be necessary, but the explanation is that several of them express each a slightly different intonation of what is practically the same consonant, the sound of" kh,"for instance, being represented by six different letters and the sound of" t "by eight.

After allowing for this, Angelico should nevertheless be accepted beyond cavil as an exalted typical painter according to his own range of conceptions, consonant with his monastic calling, unsullied purity of life and exceeding devoutness.

The Greek aspirates were not the sounds which we represent by ph, th, ch (Scotch), but corresponded rather to the sound of the final consonants in such words as lip, bit, lick, the breath being audible after the formation of the consonant.

This broad comprehensiveness, which to outsiders looks like ecclesiastical anarchy, is the characteristic note of the Church of England; it may be, and has been, defended as consonant with Christian charity and suited to the genius of a people not remarkable for logical consistency; but it makes it all the more difficult to say what the religion of Englishmen actually is, even within the English Church.

But the general argument, that the papacy may command obedience only so far as its commands are consonant with the teaching of Christ and the apostles, is only what should be expected from an ecclesiastical reformer of Grosseteste's time.

In many varieties of the Greek alphabet this symbol was used, as it always was in Latin, for the long as well as the short o-sound and also for the long vowel (in the Ionic alphabet written ov) which arose from contraction of two vowels or the loss of a consonant (57jXoUTE=677XOere, o'lxovs = oircovs).

Both languages have an assimilation process which spreads nasality from a nasal consonant to the preceding vowel.

Repeat using unforced consonant " s " and, possibly, other stimuli such as warble tones.

Speech discrimination establishes one's ability to understand consonant sounds.

At the end of first grade or beginning in second grade, children are taught short-vowel and long-vowel words as well as consonant blended and r-controlled words.

Vary this by asking the student to write the consonant or vowel that he hears in each word.

Thus, HroXucuoi is spelt Ptwrmys, Antoninus, Ntnynws or Intnyns, &c. &c. Much earlier, throughout the New Kingdom, a special syllabic orthography, in which the alphabetic signs for the consonants are generally replaced by groups or single signs having the value of a consonant followed by a semi-vowel, was used for foreign names and words, e.g.

Kant's theory of knowledge, then, needed to be pressed to other consequences for logic which were more consonant with the spirit of the Critique.

It is further pointed out that this procedure is quite consonant with the practice of science with regard to its axioms. Originally these are always postulates which have to be assumed before they can be proved, and thus in a way "make" the evidence which confirms them.

But the Phoenician form corresponding to it is the consonant w, and occupies the of position of the Greek digamma as sixth in the series.

The words might mean that Japheth was an intruding invader, but this is not consonant with the tone of the oracle.

Ch is always to be sounded as in church, g is always hard; y always represents a consonant; whilst kh and gh stand for gutturals.

An inhabitant of Lhasa, for example, finds the distinction between s and z', or between s and z, not in the consonant, but in the tone, pronouncing s' and s with a high note and z' and z with a low one.

A number of common wordsprepositions, &c.with only one consonant are spelled by single alphabetic signs in ordinary writing.

It seems therefore consonant alike with prudence and reverence to refrain from attempting to combine afresh into a single picture the materials derivable from the various documents, and to endeavour instead to describe the main contents of the sources from which our knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ as an historical personage is ultimately drawn, and to observe the picture of Him which each writer in turn has offered to us.

Indeed, it would be hard to find anything less consonant with godliness and divine perfection than the pranks of this juvenile god; and if poets and thinkers try to explain them away by dint of allegorical interpretation, the plain man will not for all their refinements take these amusing adventures any the less au pied de la lettre.